What is "tickings"

Usage examples of "tickings".

The incessant sounds of the settling Pit, the soft creakings and tickings, filled the air like the whispered teeming of invisible sea creatures.

He listened to the sounds it made, the cluckings and the tickings, the whines and the creaks.

I thought there came another noise then, above the ordinary creakings and tickings of the house—perhaps, the opening and shutting of another door, far-off.